Yeltsin Moves To Resort To Continue His Recovery

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January 31, 1999

MOSCOW - President Boris Yeltsin was moved to a health resort outside of Moscow on Saturday after two weeks of hospital treatment for a stomach ulcer, the Kremlin press service said. As if to underline that he was still in charge in spite of his ailment, Yeltsin reportedly signed a decree Saturday to reduce the size of his administration. Yeltsin's spokesman Dmitry Yakushkin told NTV television that the administration would soon be cut by one-fifth to one-quarter.